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Album Review

Jacques Kuba Séguin: La Trilogie des Odeurs

Read "La Trilogie des Odeurs" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 2, 2026

Are perfumes composed? Do they evolve? Polish-Canadian trumpeter and composer Jacques Kuba Séguin says they do, emphatically, with his La Trilogie des Odeurs: Three Works, Three Universes, One Story. In presenting an olfactory world via an auditory work of art, there is a sense that Séguin is taking things well beyond just perfume to an entire world of odors. It also suggests an entanglement of the senses, and Séguin pushes this suggestion to the max with this trilogy ...

Album Review

Steven Bernstein: ResoNation Trio/Ultra Resonance

Read "ResoNation Trio/Ultra Resonance" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
June 2, 2026

Rightfully described as a thinking (wo)man's jazz musician, trumpeter-composer-bandleader Steven Bernstein makes deeply cerebral music no matter whether with his own ensembles such as Sex Mob and Millennial Territory Orchestra or in heady collaborations with other artists such The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (see Race Riot Suite (Royal Potato Family, 2011)). In fact, the products of his imagination resound with such visceral force that those creations render an impact comparable to his membership in Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble ...

Album Review

Larry McCray: Heartbreak City

Read "Heartbreak City" reviewed by Ron Kalb

by Ron Kalb
June 2, 2026

Larry McCray's Heartbreak City, released on Keeping the Blues Alive Records, is steeped in grit, anguish, resilience and hard-won joy. The album reflects the life of a working-class blues man who sharpened his craft in the clubs of Saginaw after shifts on the General Motors assembly line, before touring nationally and eventually across Europe with Albert Collins. Every track carries the emotional weight of decades spent earning success the hard way, drawing deeply from McCray's Arkansas roots while sounding fully ...

Album Review

EVIDENCE: Evidence

by Daniel Mège
June 2, 2026

Evidence lives up to its title very well. A lot of music in this fairly short album that makes itself heard with surprising simplicity. EVIDENCE is a quartet: reeds, trombone, cello and drums. An unusual formation, but one that recalls Henry Threadgill's Zooid from 2015 onwards (without the guitar): In For A Penny, In For A Pound (Pi Recordings, 2015) and Poof. Sol Léna-Schroll (alto saxophone and clarinet) is Threadgill, Jørgen Bjelkerud (trombone) is Jose Davila, Joel Ring ...

Radio & Podcasts

Celebrating Miles Davis's 100th Birthday! Music Representing Three Time Periods (1950-1964, 1965-1968, and 1969-1982)

by David W. Daniels
June 2, 2026

This week's show plays the music of Miles Davis during three distinct time periods and jazz subgenres. First, we feature his bop, hard bop, and cool jazz contributions between 1950 and 1964. Next, music from his modal period and with the 2nd Great Quintet is played, ranging from 1965 through 1968. Finally, Miles's fusion compositions between 1969 and 1982 are featured. In addition to Miles-led bands, interpretations of his classics are done by artists including Wes Montgomery, Allan Harris, Joe ...

Album Review

Hot House West: Joy In Rhythm, Vol. I

Read "Joy In Rhythm, Vol. I" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 2, 2026

The fourteen-member Hot House West Swing Orchestra, enabled by Salt Lake City, Utah's nonprofit Hot House West, makes its recorded debut with Joy in Rhythm, Vol. 1, an array of eleven danceable songs, most of which were popular during the Swing Era's golden age in the 1930s and '40s. This is an album especially designed for dancing; it even includes a booklet that teaches the listener a number of simple dance moves tailored for beginners. In spite of ...

Radio & Podcasts

Seu Jorge, Bobby Previte, Jamile, Vinicius Gomes, Joe Lovano & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 2, 2026

Enjoy a playlist dedicated to musicians who keep redrawing the musical map one surprising album at a time.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Seu Jorge feat. Maria Rita “Vento De Maio" The Other Side (Amor in Sound) 0:16 Host talks 6:28 Jamile, Vinicius Gomes feat. Joe Martin “Mar de Maracanã" Boundless Species (La Reserve) 8:10 Host talks 13:41 Joe Lovano “Congregation" Paramount Quartet (ECM) 14:53 Hilary Geddes “The ...

Interview

Callum Au: Ellington, Basie, Wheeler And Gillespie Were The Mozarts Of Their Generation

by Mark McKergow
June 1, 2026

Composer, arranger, trombonist and musical director Callum Au is a leading light on the British music scene. He produces arrangements for the likes of Michael Buble , Dua Lipa and Raye and has composed for groups as diverse as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Inner City Brass and the SWR Big Band. He also loves to play trombone in big band settings, notably as a mainstay of the Ronnie Scott's Big Band in London. Callum is releasing Sing Seven Seas (Chairman Music in ...

Live Review

Fuchsthone Orchestra featuring Evi Filippou & UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra featuring Jazzmeia Horn at Jazzfest Bonn 2026

by Artur Moral
June 1, 2026

Fuchsthone Orchestra featuring Evi FilippouUMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra featuring Jazzmeia HornTelekom Forum Bonn, GermanyMay 9, 2026 Its host city may lack the jazz pedigree of others, but the truth is that, barely fifteen years old, Jazzfest Bonn has carved out a place among its most prestigious German counterparts--those of Moers, Berlin, Leipzig, and Hamburg. In this 2026 edition, very likely the most complete and compelling in its brief history, the festival offered a stellar ...

Radio & Podcasts

Marta Warelis, Marion Brown & Hypomaniac

by Maurice Hogue
June 1, 2026

Polish pianist Marta Warelis assembled a most eclectic group of musicians for a gig at Amsterdam's The Bimhuis in October 2024 (trumpet Ben LaMar Gay from Chicago, Dutch tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Ab Baars, Canadian tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Karen Ng, Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Frank Rosaly who's from Chicago but now making his home in Amsterdam). Warelis was fulfilling one of those Reflex commissions that The Bimhuis awards. The resulting music on Still Life With Lemons ...